This core textbook gathers an international team of historians to present a comprehensive account of the central themes in the histories of Britain, British America, and the British Caribbean seen in Atlantic perspective. This collection of individual essays provides an accessible overview of essential themes, such as the state, empire, migration, the economy, religion, race, class, gender, politics, and slavery. This new and revised edition brings this text up to date with recent work in the field of Atlantic history and extends its scope to cover themes not treated in the first edition, notably the history of science and global history. Placing the British Atlantic world in imperial and global contexts, this book offers an indispensable survey of one of the liveliest fields of current historical enquiry.

This text is a primary resource for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of History, particularly those taking modules on Early Modern British History, Colonial American History, Early American History, Caribbean History, Atlantic History and World History. Together, the essays also provide a useful starting point for researchers in British, American, imperial and Atlantic history.

New to this Edition:
- Updated and expanded to take account of new research
- Two new essays treating 'Science' and 'The British Atlantic World in Global Perspective'
- Timeline of British Atlantic history
- A revised Introduction and updated guides to further reading

David Armitage is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at Harvard University, USA. He is also an Affiliated Professor in the Harvard Department of Government, an Affiliated Faculty Member at Harvard Law School and an Honorary Professor of History at the University of Sydney, Australia.

He is the author or editor of fourteen books, among them The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (2000), which won the Longman/History Today Book of the Year Award, The Declaration of Independence: A Global History (2007), which was chosen as a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, Foundations of Modern International Thought (2013) and (with Jo Guldi) The History Manifesto (2014). His most recent edited works are Shakespeare and Early Modern Political Thought (2009), also a TLS Book of the Year, The Age of Revolutions in Global Context, c. 1760-1840 (2010), a Choice Outstanding Academic Title, and Pacific Histories: Ocean, Land, People (2014). His articles and essays have appeared in journals, newspapers and collections around the world and his works have been translated into Chinese, Danish, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish.

List of Maps
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Preface; B.Bailyn
Introduction; D.Armitage& M.J.Braddick
PART I: FRAMEWORKS
Three Concepts of Atlantic History; D.Armitage
PART II: CONNECTIONS
Migration; A.Games
Economy; N.Zahedieh
Religion; C.G.Pestana
Science; J.Delbourgo
PART III: IDENTITIES
Civility and Authority; M.J.Braddick
Gender; S.M.S.Pearsall
Class; K.Wrightson
Race; J.E.Chaplin
PART IV: POLITICS
Empire and State; E.Mancke
Revolution and Counter-Revolution; E.H.Gould
The Politics of Slavery; C.L.Brown
PART V: PERSPECTIVES
Atlantic History: A Circumnavigation; J.H.Elliott
The Atlantic in Global Perspective; L.Benton
Notes
Further Reading
Index.